Circulating Ideas

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Steve chats with Loriene Roy, Professor and Graduate Advisor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and 2007-2008 ALA President. Loriene Roy was born and raised in northern Minnesota. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band), a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Dr. Roy received … Continue reading Episode 83: Loriene Roy

Steve chats with Loriene Roy, Professor and Graduate Advisor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin and 2007-2008 ALA President. Loriene Roy was born and raised in northern Minnesota. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band), a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Dr. Roy received … Continue reading 83: Loriene Roy

Kristin LaLonde and Thomas Maluck from the Secret Stacks podcast share their Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2015. Kristin LaLonde is an Access Services Librarian and Circulation Department Manager at the Chippewa River District Library in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Kristin received her MLIS from Wayne State University in 2011. She began her library career as a Special Librarian at […]

Guest host Charlie Bennett chats with Brian Mathews, Associate Dean at Virginia Tech. Brian Mathews is an Associate Dean at Virginia Tech. He brings leadership and strategic vision to the areas of learning spaces, webinteractions, emerging media and technologies, new literacies, user engagement, and experimental pedagogies. Brian is also an Assistant Director for Virginia Tech’s […]

Guest host Leah White chats with Sarah Strahl, Assistant Director of Technology and Technical Services at Ela Area Public Library. Sarah Strahl is the Assistant Director of Technology and Technical Services at Ela Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. She received her MLS from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2008. She currently serves on the Program […]

Steve chats with Tara Robertson, Accessibility Librarian at CAPER-BC. Tara Robertson is an accessibility advocate and systems librarian. She works as an Accessibility Librarian at CAPER-BC and oversees the production of alternate formats (e-text, Accessible PDF, DAISY, Kurzweil),  advocates  for  accessibility  and works to improve service. She is passionate about accessibility, access to information, open source (especially the open source ILS […]

Steve chats with Suzan Alteri, curator at the Baldwin Library for Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida. Suzan A. Alteri, Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, conducts research on the materiality of the book and special collections in the classroom. She is the principal investigator on the grant “Women Authored […]

Steve chats with Alison Macrina, the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project. Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance […]

Steve chats with Merlin Mann about his history with libraries, the importance of the library as a community space, why libraries aren’t dead, and checking in with the Library Elf. Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster based in San Francisco. Merlin created 43 Folders, co-hosts Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, and Reconcilable Differences (and appears on […]